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Jack Balas is an artist originally based in Chicago and Los Angeles, who currently divides his time between painting, drawing and photography, cross-referenced at times with writing and other media . A recipient in 1995 of an Individual Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is represented in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York), the Tucson Museum of Art, the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (Iowa), the Kent & Vicki Logan Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Usminas Cultural Institute (Usicultura), Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil.  A portfolio of his paintings "Today I Drove Along the Rio Grande" was published in issue #120 of The Paris Review (New York). His 2008 museum solo project "We'll Be Seeing You" appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver.

This website includes a broad spectrum of the artwork divided into individual media in the above navigation bar. You can read an artist statement and get an overview of the work by taking a TOUR.  The newest painting and photo work is in the black area below, while a few other highlights from the past are in the adjacent gray.

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CURRENT SHOWS & NEWS:
Spring, 2012     xxx "Con Text," Stonewall Permanent Collections Gallery, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ. Artists exhibited include: Ed Ruscha Sue Coe William T. Wiley Jasper Johns Enrique Chagoya Richard Lindner Harmony Hammond               ____________________   NEW! Catalog from Blurb.com An 80-page, full-color look at the STUD DUST photo series.                 _____________________   NEW! Catalog from Blurb.com An 80-page, full-color look at the MUSE/ MUSEUM series.             __________________   "AMERICAN MALE" SOLO EXHIBITION EGO GALLERY BARCELONA, SPAIN January 29 - March 5, 2009 www.EgoGallery.ES See Installation Photos here. 40-page full-color catalog available               _____________________   The BROOKLYN MUSEUM, New York City, has recently acquired two pieces from the MUSE / MUSEUM series for its permanent collection. __________________	x     Current Work:  2011-2012        The Grand Canyon Suite       New Collage Series: BACK TO BACK OF THE YARDS      TATTOO DETOUR 5: Honolulu Drawings 2011          Series: MUSE / MUSEUM -- New work 2011
CATALOG ESSAY for "DECADES OF INFLUENCE" and "EXTENDED REMIX" Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver "Artist and catalogue contributor Jack Balas captures the boom mood in his poetic essay about being a laborer for hire. His description of driving across the country as an art shipper in the 80's expresses the increasing vulnerability of the artist through a portrait of the landscape. Looking in the rearview mirror suggests that the 90's represented the point of no return for the contemporary art world." Cydney Payton, Executive Director / Chief Curator, MoCA Denver. _________________	"WE'LL BE SEEING YOU" : PROJECT AND SOLO EXHIBITION MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, DENVER (Summer, 2008)
Cover Image for "How to Name a Hurricane" by Rane Arroyo University of Arizona Press In Bookstores Now	inclusion in "SELF-EXPOSURE: THE MALE NUDE SELF-PORTRAIT" photo anthology by Reed Massengill, published by Rizzoli International, New York In bookstores now INCLUSION IN NEW PHOTO ANTHOLOGY: THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF GORGEOUS GUYS
highlights FROM THE ARCHIVE:		All contents of this site © 2002-12 by Jack Balas.
NOW ON THE SITE: 1980's - 1990's PAINTINGS LANDSCAPE TEXT COLLAGE OTHER COOL STUFF	STUD DUST A series of photographs A.K.A. "Studio Men"   x	TATTOO DETOUR 3 Drawings from Honolulu 2009